Carolyn serves as Director for Charter System and School Governance at Atlanta Public Schools. She oversees the management of the Charter System implementation for the district. In this role, she ensures operational tools and processes are effective, stakeholders are informed, schools and principals feel supported, every school has an operating governance team, and training is taking place at every level of the organization. Previously, Carolyn worked in the district as Special Assistant to Chief Strategy Officer with oversight for policy compliance, the ethics program, and accreditation. Carolyn spent most of her career in higher education strategic planning, research and analysis, compliance, fundraising and accreditation. She is a board member for the Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC) and serves as a peer reviewer for AdvancED (K-12) schools and systems. Carolyn received her J.D. from Miles Law School and a B.S. from Tuskegee University.

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An Atlanta native and alumni of Atlanta Public Schools, Crystal is a true advocate for all children. She works to eliminate obstacles that prevent children from learning to provide them with quality instruction and opportunities to become scholars who can contribute to their community, the world, and humanity.

After eight years as a classroom teacher, Crystal served as an Instructional Liaison Specialist in Atlanta Public Schools for two years, supporting teachers with professional development and classroom best practices. She became principal of Beecher Hills Elementary School in Atlanta Public Schools in 2009 and continues to serve in that capacity. Beecher Hills was one of the 20 schools in the state of Georgia to implement the Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) model for parent engagement. After their successful first year of implementation, Crystal has worked closely with the district Office of Family Engagement to support and train other school teams in the district to implement the model. Beecher Hills has also begun implementing relationship-building home visits as part of the district family engagement initiative.

Ms. Keasha Copeland is a proud alum of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) System who has returned as an employee to take her place as a member of “the village”. Her career began in 1999 at Booker T. Washington High School, where she worked in vocational education and supported the Project GRAD School Reform Initiative.

Since being in education, she has been employed in several areas such as teaching, strategy, curriculum & instruction, human resources and performance management. Keasha continues to sharpen her craft to extend her services to families, schools, the district and the community. Previously, she obtained certification in change management and looks forward to completing her life coaching training.

Her commitment, passion, love for education and all children has afforded her the opportunity to live in her PURPOSE as the Director of Family Engagement.

Rubye is Senior Associate for Education Achievement at the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site. In this role, Rubye is responsible for the portfolio of education-related investments in the communities that make up NPU-V, the school district and the state.

Rubye’s career started as a middle grades math teacher in southwest Atlanta. Later, she took on an Executive Director of Data and Information position at Atlanta Public Schools. Rubye led the district in the production of actionable data to inform strategic decisions at the classroom, school, and district levels leveraging both student and teacher level data, including the production of the district’s first equity audit. Rubye completed a fellowship with the Harvard Strategic Data Project in 2015.
Rubye earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Mathematics Education from Boston University and a Masters of Education in Secondary Mathematics Education from Emory University. In 2010, Rubye completed her doctoral degree (PhD) at Emory University in Educational Studies. Rubye serves on the board of directors for the Atlanta Families Awards for Excellence in Education and the American Educational Research Association.

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